that. Almost right after, Esau came in with what his father told him to bring, and asked for his fathers blessing. His father asked who he was, and Esau told him. Then Isaac trembled violently, and told his eldest son that whoever came in before him, he blessed, and blessed he shall be!(Gen 27:33)(57) Esau let out a bitter cry of desperateness and resentment, and kept asking his father to bless him also. Though, like many at that time of humanity, they believed what was said had power, power which u couldnt simply take back. Isaac knew what was done was done, and he made this clear to Esau. Esau asked again for a blessing, then cried, and his father answered him See, away from the fatness of the earth shall your home be, and away from the dew of heaven on high. By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you break loose, you shall break his yoke from your neck.(Gen 27:39-40)(58) A brother who did not want to accept the fate of seeing the elder son get everything without having to make the slightest effort cheated Esau. (29) Frequently, the bible presents characters whose personalities and roles confront those of other characters in order to make its point.(410) In essence, what we have here is the climax of a struggle between natural man (Esau) and covenantal (or, in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century terminology, federal) man (Jacob). (411) Esau hated his brother for what he did, so he plotted his death for after his father died. Rebekah knew this and told Jacob to flee to her brother Laban in Haran, and that when Esaus rage calms, she will send for Jacob to come back. She doesnt want to lose Jacob. As a cover story for Jacobs fleeing, Rebekah tells Isaac that she doesnt want Jacob to marry a Hittite woman, that she wants him to search elsewhere for a mate, because the Hittite women have made her life miserable. Isaac tells his son to take a wife from one of Labans daughters. The bible conveys the sense of I...
